Environment Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Environment
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~ The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. ~

Al Gore

~ The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. ~

Marshall McLuhan

~ Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. ~

Susan Sontag

~ It used to be thought that our love of plants was an impractical but pure passion. But now, in the age of environmental crisis, we're discovering that gardening is essential to human life. ~

Jacqueline Heriteau

~ Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself…. When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with … that of former times, we see that “chemical imperialism” has been … the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ We Americans have so much potential. We just need to cultivate an environment that allows us to let go of our Cro-Magnon nationalism and start living like citizens of earth. ~

Steve Pavlina

~ In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it. ~

Joseph Badaracco

~ Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. ~

John Dewey

~ People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves. ~

Robert Collier

~ There can be no greater moral obligation in the environmental field than to ease out the living space and replace dereliction by beauty. ~

Frank Fraser Darling†

~ The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind. ~

Rene Dubos†

~ Awareness is becoming acquainted with the environments, no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with. No child need be told its secrets; he keeps it until the influence of gadgetry and the indifference of teen-age satiation extinguish its intuitive joy. ~

Sigurd F. Olson

~ I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over our environment. ~

Howard Zahniser

~ It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ~

Ansel Adams

~ There is just something spectacular about seeing wildlife in its natural environment that thrills us and helps us better understand the exotic cats in our care. ~

Arun Kejriwal

~ Fundamental Christian values include preserving one's own health, feeding the hungry, preventing animal abuse, and protecting the environment. Vegetarianism effectively promotes these values ~

STEPHEN R. KAUFMAN

~ But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. ~

Kevin Kelly

~ Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose. ~

Marshall McLuhan

~ You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ~

James Lane Allen

~ Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it. ~

WILLIAM ASHWORTH

~ If you could tomorrow morning make water clean in the world, you would have done, in one fell swoop, the best thing you could have done for improving human health by improving environmental quality. ~

WILLIAM C. CLARK

~ Water and its availability and quality will be the main pressures on, and issues for, societies and the environment under climate change. ~

IPCC, 2007

~ In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. ~

Richard Wilkinson

~ Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. ~

Channing E. Phillips

~ The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood. ~

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

~ The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day. ~

Chief Oren Lyons

~ Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing. ~

Moby

~ Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues. ~

Stephen Covey

~ Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so. ~

William Hewlett

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